On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:30 PM, BBEdit-Talk List wrote:
I realize this is a silly request, but I've not found an answer --
I need to reverse the type of a selection.
E.g.,
markstanley needs to become yelnatskram
and I have a long list of these. Surely there's an easy fancy grep-
tastic mechanism that escapes me.
Find
(.)(.)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)
(.?)(.?)(.?)
Replace
\20\19\18\17\16\15\14\13\12\11\10\9\8\7\6\5\4\3\2\1
But seriously, this isn't really something that grep is suitable
for. I
would use a filter. Here's one in Perl that reverses each line in the
selection individually:
#!perl -pl
$_ = reverse $_;
__END__
And this one reverses the whole selection as a single entity:
#!perl -pl
BEGIN { $/ = undef }
$_ = reverse $_;
__END__
HTH,
Ronald
Ronald,
Thx. It does. I'm not very good with Perl -- or not as good as I
should be. I'll have to dig deeper or go write some php tools
<?php
echo strrev("p.vail");
?>
should output: liav.p
I keep forgetting that not everything needs to be done in my text
editor, but I was hopin'!
vail
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